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Jerri Dell

Biography

Jerri Dell

Following a 30-year career working with illiterate women in poor countries for the World Bank, Jerri Dell moved to rural Pennsylvania, where she writes creative nonfiction and memoir. BLOOD TOO BRIGHT: Remembering Edna St. Vincent Millay, is her vision of the book on which her grandfather, early 20th-century author Floyd Dell, was working at the time of his death in 1969. She is currently writing a memoir of her travels for the World Bank, and another of growing up with the ghosts of Bohemian Greenwich Village.

Jerri Dell

Books by Jerri Dell

Blood Too Bright: Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Jerri Dell - Letters, Memoir, Nonfiction

One hundred years ago, Bohemian author and editor of the radical Masses magazine, Floyd Dell, began a passionate affair with a newcomer to Greenwich Village --- the yet-to-be-discovered "girl poet," Edna St. Vincent Millay. In the years that followed, both Dell and Millay became symbols of early 20th-century feminism, rebellion and literary freedom. A century later, while poring over her grandfather Floyd's papers at Chicago's Newberry Library, Jerri Dell discovered hundreds of handwritten letters and an unpublished memoir about his love affair with Millay. Finding him as outlandish, entertaining and insightful as he was when she knew him 50 years before, she chose to bring him and his poet lover back to life within the pages of this book.